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Farmer says this week’s extreme heat will hurt, not help crops

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A severe heat wave will expand into the Great Plains and Corn Belt this week and a farmer says that may not be good news for crops.

Randy Uhrmacher grows corn and soybeans in South-Central Nebraska in an area that is in extreme and exceptional drought according to the latest US Drought Monitor. “When you don’t have subsoil moisture and miss a few rains and you turn the heat on, that’s very detrimental to the crop. 

Farmer says this week’s extreme heat will hurt, not help crops